Fri, 27 Mar 2009

Oh, wow. I can't believe I've used Emacs all these years without knowing
about bookmarks.

I wanted something in Emacs akin to the "Open Recent" menu that a lot of GUI
apps have. Except, well, I didn't want it to need a menu (I don't
normally show a menubar in Emacs) and I didn't want it limited only to
recently accessed files. So ... just like Open Recent, only completely
different.

What I really wanted was a way to nickname files I access regularly,
so I don't have to type
~/foo/bar/blaz/route-66/dufus/velociraptor/archaeopteryx/filename
every time. Even with tab completion, remembering long paths gets
old. Of course emacs must have a way to do that; it has
everything. The trick was guessing what it might be called
in order to search for it.